The Higher Finance

"The Higher Finance" is the second of three novellas written by Leslie Charteris and included in the twelfth Saint book The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal published in 1934. It had previously been published in the magazine Thriller as "On the Night of the 13th!"

Plot
Templar impersonates a forger in order to stop the richest man in Europe from generating a cache of fake bond certificates, but soon finds himself in the midst of a bizarre case of impersonation and accidental death. This story reintroduces Orace, Templar's former butler, after an absence of several years.